DECEMBER 14, 1908] TuHnREE Score or New PLANTS 
of 
Type specimen 10174, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
1908. 
Inhabiting deep wooded ravines of the Bonyao river from 
2000 to 3000 feet. 
Would be referred to L. javanica Blm. were it not for 
the glabrous leaves and ample red inflorescence. L. sundaica 
Mig. has red flowers and is the same as Blume’s L. robusta 
which is described as having congested corymbs and leaves 
seabrous beneath. 
TILIACEJE. 
HALCONIA Merr. 
Halconia negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
a Erect tree, 15 m. high; stems usually somewhat crooked, 
5 dm. in diameter; wood white throughout, easily cutting, 
odorless; bark grayish, mottled, minutely checked longitud- 
inally and roughened with flat lenticels, reddish beneath 
the epidermis; branches rather widely branching, yellowish 
scurfy on the younger portions. Leaves flat, ascending along 
the twigs, coriaceous, deep dull green above, whitish beneath, 
the average blades 10 em. long, 5 em. wide, oblong, equally 
rounded at both ends, margins subentire or minutely ser- 
rately toothed, sprinkled on both sides with tuftlets of yellowish 
ciliate peltate hair like scales, otherwise glabrous on the upper side 
except the seurfy veins, beneath with a dense lepidote matrix, 
alternate; petiole about 2 cm. long, stout, scurfy; nerves 
prominent beneath, 4 to 7 pairs, tips obscurely united, the 
basal pair very oblique, strict. Cymes greenish, terminal and 
from the uppermost leaf axils, not much exceeding 10 cm. © 
in length and 6 cm. across the top; stout peduncle varying | 
in length, 7 cm. long, yellowish scurfy, occasionally subten- _ 
ded at the base by a short blunt thick scale; secondary _ 
peduncles terminated by small clusters of 3 to 5 flowers | 
 Subtended by an involucre; pedicels 4 to 7 mm. long inthe — 
fruiting state, ciliate; involucral bracts 8 mm. long, spreading, - 
495 
somewhat paler green and even grayish on the. outside, 5- 
(to T in Puce emis in width, the broader one » frequently Ar 
